A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

t24 CONCOLE RUS.

CONCORDIA.

1. (XVIII.) Manuel, Emperor, 2. Eudoxia, married Ja- 3. Anna, 4. A daughter,
born 1364, Caesar 1376; suc- tines or Zetines, aTurkish married married Taharceeded his father 1390 (?); emir, and after his death Bagrat VI., tan or Zahrasubmitted to Timur; died John V. Palaeologus, king of tan, emir of
1412; married Eudoxia, daugh- Emperor of Constanti- Georgia. Arsinga.
ter of David, king of Georgia. nople.
(XIX.) Alexis IV., Emperor; succeeded his father in 1412; murdered between 1445 and 1449
married a Cantacuzenian princess.

(XX.) 1. Joannes
IV. (Calo-Joannes),
Emp.; deposed and
killed his father
between 1445 and
1449; paid tribute
to the Turks; died
1458; married a
daughter of Alexander, king of Iberia.

2. Alexander,
married a
daughter of
Gatteluzzi,
prince of
Lesbos.
A Son, whose
life was spared
by Mohammed
II.

3. (XXII.) David, the last 4. Maria, 5. A daughter
Emperor of Trebizond; seized married married a Turthe crown from his nephew JohnV II. koman emir in
Alexis V. in 1458; married Palaeolo- Persia.
1. Maria Theodora, of the gus, em- 6. A daughter;
house of the Theodori, princes peror of married George
of Gothia in the Crimea; Constan- Brancowicz, kral
2. Helena (Irene), daughter tinople. (king) of Servia.
of Matthaeus, and granddaughter of John VI. Cantacuzenus, emperor of Constantinople; deposed by Sultan Mohammed II. in 1462; exiled with
his family to Serres, near Adrianople; put to death with nearly
all his children by order of the Sultan, probably in 1466.
ded 2. A daughter, 3. Catharina, married
ýear married Nicolo Usfin Hasan, Emir of
by Crespo, duke of Diyarbekr, Sultan of
the Archipelago. Mesopotamia.

(XXI.) 1. Alexis V., born 1454; succee(
his father 1458; deposed in the same y
by his uncle David; put to death
Sultan Mohammed II. after 1462.

1-7. Seven sons, put to 8. George, the youngest; said to have adopted 9. Anna, her life was
death with their father the Mohammedan religion; his life was spared; she married a
at Adrianople. spared, but his fate is doubtful. Turkish chief.
A branch of the Comnenian family became ex- CONCOLITA'N US (KoytcoNXIavos), a kiiing of
tinct at Rome in 1551; another branch flourished the Gallic people called Gaesati, and colleague of
in Savoy, and became extinct in 1784. Demetrius Anerohstus, together with whom he made war
Comnenus, a captain in the French army, whose against the Romans, B. c. 225. [ANERPOESTUS.]
descendants are still alive, pretended to be de- In the battle in which they were defeated, Concoscended from Nicephorus, one of the sons of the litanus was taken prisoner. (Polyb. ii. 31.) [E. E.]
last emperor of Trebizond, David, whose life, ac- CONCO'RDIA, a Roman divinity, the personicording to him was spared by Mohammed, and fication of concord. She had several temples at
his parentage and name were recognized by letters- Rome, and one was built as early as the time of
patent of Louis XVI., king of France. But his Furius Camillus, who vowed and built it in comclaims will hardly stand a critical examination, memoration of the reconciliation between the patrinotwithstanding many so-called authentic docu- cians and plebeians. (Plut. Cam. 42; Ov. Fast. i.
ments which he published in a rather curious 639.) This temple, in which frequent meetings of
work, " Precis historique de la Maison Imperiale the senate were held, but which appears to have
des Comnines, avec Filiation directe et reconnue fallen into decay, was restored by Livia, the wife
par Lettres-Patentes du Roi du mois d'Avril, 1782, of Augustus, and was consecrated by her son,
depuis David, dernier empereur de Trebizonde, Tiberius, A. n. 9, after his victory over the Pannojusqu' a Demetrius Comnene," Amsterdam, 1784, nians. (Suet. Tib. 20; Dion Cass. lv. 17.) In the
8vo. (Fallmerayer, Geschichte des Kaiserthims von reign of Constantine and Maxentius, the temple
Trapezunt.) [W. P.] was burnt down, but was again restored. A second
COMUS (KCS/xos), occurs in the later times of temple of Concordia was built by Cn. Flavius on
antiquity as the god of festive mirth and joy. He the area of the temple of Vulcan (Liv. ix. 46, xl.
was represented as a winged youth, and Philo- 19; Plin. H.N. xxxiii. 6), and a third was vowed
stratus (Icon. i. 2) describes him as he appeared in by L. Manlius during a seditious commotion among
a painting, drunk and languid after a repast, his his troops in Gaul, and was afterwards erected on
head sunk on his breast; he was slumbering in the Capitoline hill. (Liv. xxii. 33.) Concordia is
a standing attitude, and his legs were crossed. represented on several coins as a matron, sometimes
(Hirt, iMythol. Bilderb. ii. p. 224.) [L. S.] standing and sometimes sitting, and holding in her
CONCO'LERUS (Ko-ycdoAipos), the. Greek left hand a cornucopia, and in her right either an
name of Sardanapalus. (Polyb. Fragmn. ix,) Other olive branch or a palera. (Comp. Ov. Fast. vi. 91;
forms of the name are Koveoo'ylcdicopos (see Suid. Varr. L. L. v. 73, ed. Miiller; Cic. de Nat. Deor.
s. v.) and CEr.oc,'ocdaosso. [E. E.] ii. 23,; irt, MJ1sthoL Bilderb. ii. p. 108.) [L. S,]